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The Differences Between Dreaming and REM Sleep
I think when you fall into a fairly intense daydream, I think it has qualities that are really rather similar to nightdreams. It's a total different quality, though. You don't have the emotional charge. We've only recently discovered conclusively that dreaming and REM sleep are two separate things. Patients with damage to specific brain structures can no longer dream. So anything that we want to attribute to dreaming as being the functional contribution that dreams make to mental life should be missing and at least reduced in these patients.